Portfolio · 2026

Building reliable platforms for the long haul.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer and Platform Engineer with 20 years of experience in software development, including six years in financial services. I lead end-to-end platform migrations into production, transitioning systems such as Sitecore and SAP Commerce to a bank’s content platform on Azure. DevOps workflows behind them using Jenkins, Spinnaker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Kept systems reliable with an observability stack built on Dynatrace, Splunk, and Grafana, backed by clear SLI/SLO definitions and burn-rate alerting.

Solo platform owner · coordinates contractors, vendors and internal teams · production first

Based in San Ramon, CA · U.S. citizen · Open to Bay Area hybrid and US remote

Skills

Languages

  • C#
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • Java
  • Bash
  • PowerShell
  • Groovy
  • GraphQL
  • T-SQL
  • PL/SQL

Web & backend

  • ASP.NET MVC
  • ASP.NET Web API
  • React
  • Spring
  • Sitecore
  • SAP Commerce Cloud

Cloud

  • AWS EC2
  • ECS
  • S3
  • VPC
  • IAM
  • SageMaker
  • CloudWatch
  • Azure Application Gateway
  • Azure VNets
  • Azure SQL

Infrastructure & containers

  • Terraform
  • CloudFormation
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Helm

CI/CD

  • Jenkins
  • Spinnaker
  • Bitbucket
  • GitHub Actions
  • Azure Pipelines
  • TFS
  • Artifactory
  • Blue-green
  • Rolling deploys

Reliability

  • SLOs & SLIs
  • Error budgets
  • On-call
  • Blameless postmortems
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Dynatrace
  • Splunk
  • New Relic
  • Distributed tracing

AI/ML platform

  • AWS SageMaker
  • MLOps pipelines
  • GitHub Copilot
  • MCP connectors

Security & data

  • DevSecOps
  • SOX
  • PCI
  • GDPR
  • Least-privilege IAM
  • Secrets management
  • Veracode
  • SonarQube
  • SQL Server
  • Oracle
  • PostgreSQL
  • Solr

Edge

  • Akamai Kona
  • GTM
  • WAF
  • SiteShield
  • Edge Redirector
  • NetStorage

Architecture and design

  • Software Design
  • Software Architecture
  • Agile Methodologies
  • SDLC
  • Distributed Systems
  • Software Observability

Leadership and delivery

  • Technical Leadership
  • Technical Project Leadership
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Communication

Actively building

  • Go
  • GitOps with Argo CD
  • OpenTelemetry
  • GCP

Experience

Jul 2023 – Aug 2026 3 yrs 1 mo

· San Francisco, CA

Site Reliability & Platform Engineer (2023–2026)

Platform and reliability engineering for Line of Business application teams across AWS and the firm’s private cloud — the reliability layer between LOB developers and regulated infrastructure. Defined what healthy meant, carried the on-call that proved it, and built the pipelines and IaC those teams shipped on.

  • Defined and tracked SLOs and SLIs for distributed microservices, building Grafana dashboards on Prometheus metrics to monitor error budgets, infrastructure health, FinOps spend, and SLA compliance across AWS and private cloud.
  • Ran on-call incident response for high-availability distributed systems — triaged production incidents, drove root-cause analysis and blameless postmortems, and authored runbooks that reduced mean time to resolution by 30%.
  • Performed capacity planning for Kubernetes clusters on the firm’s private cloud running on Linux/Unix hosts — right-sizing resource requests and limits, tuning Docker deployments, and managing cluster setup and deployment manifests to prevent over-provisioning.
  • Authored and maintained Terraform and CloudFormation modules provisioning AWS and private cloud infrastructure for compliance-driven migrations, eliminating configuration drift and manual deployment effort.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and Spinnaker for Line of Business application teams, supporting blue-green and rolling deployments to AWS ECS and private cloud.
  • Automated environment validation, deployment verification, and operational toil reduction in Python, PowerShell, and Bash across AWS and private-cloud estates.
  • Configured Dynatrace distributed tracing, custom tagging, and synthetic monitors, and built Splunk dashboards, reports, and alerts to strengthen end-to-end observability and incident detection.
  • Managed Control-M scheduled job workflows and tuned failure alerting and escalation paths to shorten time to detection.
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • CloudFormation
  • Docker
  • Python
  • Java
  • Jenkins
  • Spinnaker
  • Dynatrace
  • Splunk
  • RHEL
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Private Clouds
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Cloud Services
  • Cloud Cost Optimization
  • Bash
  • PowerShell
  • CI/CD
  • Artifactory
  • Git
  • Jules
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Grafana
  • Splunk Enterprise
  • ServiceNow
  • Oracle Database
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Incident Response
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Microservices
  • Machine Learning
  • Large Language Models
  • Capacity Planning

MLOps platform (2026)

SRE for the enterprise AI/ML platform. Brought in to move the firm's MLOps estate onto a new SageMaker-based framework without interrupting inference for downstream consumers, and to put automated validation and reliability tooling around models running in production.

  • Re-platformed enterprise MLOps workloads onto AWS SageMaker, migrating to new AWS accounts across all environments from scratch while preserving model availability for downstream consumers.
  • Engineered Python automation that validates AI/ML model inference endpoints, running automated regression checks that catch inference degradation before it reaches production.
  • Standardized CI/CD model promotion for model-serving infrastructure, making deployments consistent and repeatable across development, test, and production.
  • Championed AI-assisted development with GitHub Copilot and VS Code, accelerating delivery of infrastructure code, automation scripts, and test coverage across the team.
  • AWS
  • SageMaker
  • Terraform
  • Python
  • Java
  • Docker
  • MLOps
  • Jenkins
  • Spinnaker
  • Grafana
  • RHEL
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Cloud Services
  • Bash
  • CI/CD
  • Artifactory
  • Git
  • Jules
  • GitHub Copilot
  • VS Code
  • Splunk Enterprise
  • ServiceNow
  • Machine Learning
  • Large Language Models
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Incident Response
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Capacity Planning

Apr 2020 – Jul 2023 3 yrs 3 mos

· San Francisco, CA

Technical Lead – Platform

Technical lead for the bank's Azure-hosted Sitecore platform, owning it end to end — secure cloud architecture and infosec review, edge delivery, observability, disaster recovery, and the production on-call rotation — through its major version upgrade.

  • Led the Sitecore 9.1 → 10.2 upgrade on Azure end to end — authored the cutover plan and Go-Live runbook, then validated VPN tunnels, DNS, TLS certificates, SMTP, and Splunk/New Relic integrations in the upgraded environment.
  • Ran architecture and information security reviews across Sitecore and Azure App Services, Application Gateway, and Virtual Networks, using Veracode static analysis to validate secure coding practices, and partnered with cloud and on-premises network teams on secure VPN access and firewall exception handling.
  • Configured real-time alerting in Azure Monitor, New Relic, and Splunk, and served in the rotating on-call SRE rotation supporting platform uptime.
  • Owned Akamai Kona edge delivery and security — WAF, GTM, SiteShield, and Edge Redirector — and integrated the Akamai NetStorage Usage and Purge APIs into platform tooling.
  • Improved page load performance through custom Solr indexes and Sitecore/Akamai caching strategies, and exposed platform diagnostics through ASP.NET Web API endpoints backed by Azure SQL.
  • Ran disaster recovery testing across both on-premises infrastructure and the Azure-hosted Sitecore platform.
  • Azure
  • Sitecore
  • Akamai
  • C#
  • TypeScript
  • ASP.NET Core
  • React
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • New Relic
  • AWS
  • Private Clouds
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Cloud Services
  • RHEL
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • ASP.NET Web API
  • .NET Framework
  • Groovy
  • Bash
  • PowerShell
  • REST
  • CI/CD
  • Artifactory
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Jules
  • Visual Studio
  • VS Code
  • Grafana
  • Splunk
  • Splunk Enterprise
  • ServiceNow
  • Web Application Firewalls
  • SSO
  • Microservices
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Incident Response
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Capacity Planning

May 2013 – Feb 2020 6 yrs 9 mos

· Fremont, CA

Senior .NET Engineer (2013–2017)

Full-stack engineer on the commerce platform — customer-facing features plus the internal tooling and third-party integrations behind them, across .NET, Sitecore, and Magento. Primary engineer on two Sitecore platform migrations.

  • Led migration of the commerce platform to Sitecore 6 and Sitecore 8, moving custom tools, reports, and integrations with PowerShell automation and Docker containers, with no interruption to e-commerce operations.
  • Built full-stack features and internal tooling in ASP.NET and C# — Sitecore content import/export, backup, and bulk operations — plus REST services delivering content to opsInfo Web/Windows applications.
  • Automated pricing and inventory synchronization from Magento to Sitecore through Azure Pipelines and deployed Magento promotion and gift-card extensions, improving product data accuracy and reducing sync errors.
  • Delivered Oracle ERP and Salesforce CRM integrations, analytics/SEO/BI reporting, affiliate product feeds, and Akamai CDN and NetStorage configuration.
  • C#
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • ASP.NET Web API
  • Sitecore
  • SQL Server
  • jQuery
  • REST
  • PowerShell
  • Akamai
  • New Relic
  • Visual Studio
  • Magento Integration
  • PayPal Integration
  • Salesforce integration

Lead Commerce Architect (2017–2020)

Architecture and delivery lead for a global e-commerce platform. Owned technology decisions, vendor selection, and release readiness across two successive platform migrations, leading a contractor team through a 12-month program to Go-Live.

  • Led the SAP Commerce Cloud V2 upgrade end to end in five months, from requirements gathering through Go-Live, managing scope, timeline, and stakeholder alignment.
  • Ran the Sitecore/Magento to SAP Hybris Commerce Cloud migration across requirements, architecture, development, QA, and training, then validated readiness through automated content quality checks and functional, performance, and user acceptance testing.
  • Integrated payments, fraud, and tax systems — PayPal and Cybersource for order payments, Cybersource and Zendesk for returns fraud management, and Avalara for US and Canada tax configuration.
  • Established GDPR data privacy processes and single sign-on across the web store, support portal, and forums using SAP Customer Data Cloud.
  • Designed and executed the data migration strategy, integrated product feeds with retailer and affiliate partners, and owned Akamai delivery and security configuration.
  • SAP Commerce Cloud
  • Azure
  • Java
  • C#
  • TypeScript
  • Sitecore
  • Akamai
  • React
  • ASP.NET Core
  • Jenkins
  • SQL Server
  • ASP.NET Web API
  • PowerShell
  • jQuery
  • Visual Studio
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Splunk Enterprise
  • New Relic
  • SSO
  • PayPal Integration
  • Cybersource Integration
  • Salesforce integration
  • Zendesk Integration
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Cloud Services
  • Microservices
  • Incident Response

Jan 2006 – Feb 2013 7 yrs 1 mo

· Santa Clara, CA

Senior Software Engineer

Full-stack engineer on opsInfo, an enterprise environmental and sustainability reporting product. Worked the whole stack — web framework, REST APIs, admin UI, reporting engine, and backend services — for a product deployed to enterprise clients across multiple countries.

  • Designed and built the web framework, REST APIs, and single-page Admin UI for the opsInfo web product, cutting page load times to under two seconds through advanced caching and query batching.
  • Re-platformed the reporting engine onto .NET to meet scalability demands and enable Unicode multi-language support, extending the product to 7 languages and new international markets.
  • Engineered integration APIs giving third-party products customizable access to opsInfo data, and built Windows services for asynchronous data processing plus diagnostics and upgrade tooling that cut client support inquiries.
  • C#
  • .NET Framework
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • ASP.NET Web API
  • SQL Server
  • Oracle Database
  • jQuery
  • Visual Studio

Work projects

JPMorgan Chase · Jul 2023 – Jan 2026

Kubernetes observability standard

Wrote the Dynatrace and Splunk standard for the private Kubernetes platform — tracing, tagging, synthetics, and dashboards — as reusable assets. Onboarded about 11 application teams; other teams adopted it from the documentation.

  • Kubernetes
  • Dynatrace
  • Splunk
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus

JPMorgan Chase · Jan 2026 – Aug 2026

MLOps on AWS

Re-platformed production ML onto SageMaker in new AWS accounts without interrupting inference, and gated model promotion with Python checks. That AWS work sat alongside other applications, including an anti-money-laundering app.

  • AWS
  • SageMaker
  • Python
  • Terraform
  • Grafana

First Republic Bank · Apr 2020 – Jul 2023

Azure content-platform migration

Led the bank’s content platform onto Azure in 8 months against a typical 12-month timeline, through a clean go-live with no loss of availability.

  • Azure
  • Azure Application Gateway
  • Azure VNets
  • Sitecore
  • Akamai

Corsair · May 2013 – Jan 2017

Sitecore content backup and migration

Built Sitecore tooling that backed up every content item into source control for history and rollback, and converted legacy layouts into responsive layouts during the migration.

  • Sitecore
  • ASP.NET
  • C#
  • PowerShell

Corsair · Jan 2017 – Feb 2020

Commerce platform migrations

Led a 12-month move from Sitecore and Magento to SAP Hybris with four contractors, then the SAP Commerce Cloud V2 upgrade in five months.

  • SAP Commerce Cloud
  • Java
  • Spring
  • Akamai

ESP (later IHS Markit) · Jan 2006 – Feb 2013

opsInfo APIs from scratch

Built the web framework, REST APIs, and single-page admin UI for the opsInfo product essentially from scratch, and brought page loads under two seconds.

  • ASP.NET
  • C#
  • REST

Personal projects

AWS

Investor Dashboard

Portfolio and operations visibility for investor workflows, hosted on AWS. Python collection jobs, Terraform, and a static dashboard behind CloudFront.

  • Python
  • AWS Lambda
  • S3
  • CloudFront
  • Terraform
  • Cognito

“A single pane for investor ops.”

Multi-cloud

Multi-Cloud Dashboard

One application, several clouds — the same API on Cloud Run, ECS, and Azure App Service, fronted by Cloudflare for edge delivery.

  • Go
  • Python
  • .NET
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Cloudflare

“Same app, any cloud.”

SRE libraries

opsKit

Python libraries for cloud operations: inventory, guarded changes, Kubernetes helpers, and access-log checks. Dry-run by default, with timeouts and structured logs.

  • Python
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes

“Dry-run by default.”

Knowledge

Credit union knowledge system

Answers member questions from dated website snapshots, with citations, conflict resolution, and abstention when the snapshot does not say. Practice score 0.969 on the public 40-question eval.

  • Python

“Cite the snapshot, or abstain.”

API

Tasks API

A small production-minded REST API: JWT authentication, migrations, rate limits, and CI that builds and smoke-tests the container.

  • TypeScript
  • NestJS
  • PostgreSQL

“Secure by default, short-lived tokens.”

In progress, and not public yet: GitOps with Argo CD on a k3s cluster, and OpenTelemetry traces and metrics into a Grafana/Tempo stack.

Certifications

Training

Education

1994 – 1998

BS, Computer Science and Systems Engineering

Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India

Contact

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Career arc: four eras over twenty years — ESP, Corsair Gaming, First Republic, and JPMorgan Chase — with six years in financial services. The common thread is a solo platform owner who coordinates contractors, vendors, and internal teams, production first.

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